1. Peter’s Post Pentecost Ministry Acts 3:1-4:3715
Peter’s Post Pentecost Ministry
Acts 3:1-4:37

2. Outline - Acts I. The Ministry of Peter – Acts 1:1-12:19
Peter’s 1st Sermon – Acts 1:1-2:47
Peter’s Post Pentecost Ministry – Acts 3:1-4:37
Persecution of Peter & Apostles – Acts 5:1-42
Persecution of the Church - 1 – Acts 6:1-7:60
Persecution of the Church - 2 – Acts 8:1-9:43
Peter Preaches to the Gentiles – Acts 10:1-12:25

3. 1 Now Peter and John were going up to the temple at the ninth hour, the hour of prayer. 2 And a man who had been lame from his mother’s womb was being carried along, whom they used to set down every day at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, in order to beg alms of those who were entering the temple.
- Acts 3:1-2

4. 3 When he saw Peter and John about to go into the temple, he began asking to receive alms. 4 But Peter, along with John, fixed his gaze on him and said, “Look at us!” 5 And he began to give them his attention, expecting to receive something from them.
- Acts 3:3-5

5. 6 But Peter said, “I do not possess silver and gold, but what I do have I give to you: In the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene—walk!” 7 And seizing him by the right hand, he raised him up; and immediately his feet and his ankles were strengthened.
- Acts 3:6-7

6. 8 With a leap he stood upright and began to walk; and he entered the temple with them, walking and leaping and praising God. 9 And all the people saw him walking and praising God; 10 and they were taking note of him as being the one who used to sit at the Beautiful Gate of the temple to beg alms, and they were filled with wonder and amazement at what had happened to him.
- Acts 3:8-10

7. Healing the Beggar Beggar was well known Infirmed from birth
Immediately healed
Well known
Legitimate healing

8. 43 Everyone kept feeling a sense of awe; and many wonders and signs were taking place through the apostles. 44 And all those who had believed were together and had all things in common; 45 and they began selling their property and possessions and were sharing them with all, as anyone might have need.
- Acts 2:43-45

9. 46 Day by day continuing with one mind in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, they were taking their meals together with gladness and sincerity of heart, 47 praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord was adding to their number day by day those who were being saved.
- Acts 2:46-47

10. 11 While he was clinging to Peter and John, all the people ran together to them at the so-called portico of Solomon, full of amazement. 12 But when Peter saw this, he replied to the people, “Men of Israel, why are you amazed at this, or why do you gaze at us, as if by our own power or piety we had made him walk?
- Acts 3:11-12

11. 13 The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified His servant Jesus, the one whom you delivered and disowned in the presence of Pilate, when he had decided to release Him. 14 But you disowned the Holy and Righteous One and asked for a murderer to be granted to you,
- Acts 3:13-14

12. 15 but put to death the Prince of life, the one whom God raised from the dead, a fact to which we are witnesses. 16 And on the basis of faith in His name, it is the name of Jesus which has strengthened this man whom you see and know; and the faith which comes through Him has given him this perfect health in the presence of you all.
- Acts 3:15-16

13. 17 “And now, brethren, I know that you acted in ignorance, just as your rulers did also. 18 But the things which God announced beforehand by the mouth of all the prophets, that His Christ would suffer, He has thus fulfilled.
- Acts 3:17-18

14. Therefore repent and return, so that your sins may be wiped away, in order that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord;
- Acts 3:19

15. 20 and that He may send Jesus, the Christ appointed for you, 21 whom heaven must receive until the period of restoration of all things about which God spoke by the mouth of His holy prophets from ancient time. 22 Moses said, ‘The Lord God will raise up for you a prophet like me from your brethren; to Him you shall give heed to everything He says to you.
- Acts 3:20-22

16. 23 And it will be that every soul that does not heed that prophet shall be utterly destroyed from among the people.’ 24 And likewise, all the prophets who have spoken, from Samuel and his successors onward, also announced these days.
- Acts 3:23-24

17. It is you who are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant which God made with your fathers, saying to Abraham, ‘And in your seed all the families of the earth shall be blessed.’
- Acts 3:25

18. For you first, God raised up His Servant and sent Him to bless you by turning every one of you from your wicked ways.”
- Acts 3:26

19. 1 As they were speaking to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple guard and the Sadducees came up to them, 2 being greatly disturbed because they were teaching the people and proclaiming in Jesus the resurrection from the dead. 3 And they laid hands on them and put them in jail until the next day, for it was already evening.
- Acts 4:1-3

20. Peter and John Arrested by:
Priests

21. 8 Now it happened that while he was performing his priestly service before God in the appointed order of his division, 9 according to the custom of the priestly office, he was chosen by lot to enter the temple of the Lord and burn incense.
- Luke 1:8-9

22. Peter and John Arrested by:
Priests
Captain of the Temple Guard
Sadducees

23. But many of those who had heard the message believed; and the number of the men came to be about five thousand.
- Acts 4:4

24. 5 On the next day, their rulers and elders and scribes were gathered together in Jerusalem; 6 and Annas the high priest was there, and Caiaphas and John and Alexander, and all who were of high-priestly descent.
- Acts 4:5-6

25. 7 When they had placed them in the center, they began to inquire, “By what power, or in what name, have you done this?” 8 Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, “Rulers and elders of the people,
- Acts 4:7-8

26. 9 if we are on trial today for a benefit done to a sick man, as to how this man has been made well, 10 let it be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead—by this name this man stands here before you in good health.
- Acts 4:9-10

27. 11 He is the stone which was rejected by you, the builders, but which became the chief corner stone. 12 And there is salvation in no one else; for there is no other name under heaven that has been given among men by which we must be saved.”
- Acts 4:11-12

28. 11 When they bring you before the synagogues and the rulers and the authorities, do not worry about how or what you are to speak in your defense, or what you are to say; 12 for the Holy Spirit will teach you in that very hour what you ought to say.”
- Luke 12:11-12

29. Peter’s Sermon Points Miracle by Jesus’ power and authority
Rulers responsible for Jesus’ death
God raised Jesus from the dead
His rejection spoken of by prophets
Salvation only possible through Jesus

30. 13 Now as they observed the confidence of Peter and John and understood that they were uneducated and untrained men, they were amazed, and began to recognize them as having been with Jesus. 14 And seeing the man who had been healed standing with them, they had nothing to say in reply.
- Acts 4:13-14

31. 15 But when they had ordered them to leave the Council, they began to confer with one another, 16 saying, “What shall we do with these men? For the fact that a noteworthy miracle has taken place through them is apparent to all who live in Jerusalem, and we cannot deny it.
- Acts 4:15-16

32. 17 But so that it will not spread any further among the people, let us warn them to speak no longer to any man in this name.” 18 And when they had summoned them, they commanded them not to speak or teach at all in the name of Jesus.
- Acts 4:17-18

33. 19 But Peter and John answered and said to them, “Whether it is right in the sight of God to give heed to you rather than to God, you be the judge; 20 for we cannot stop speaking about what we have seen and heard.”
- Acts 4:19-20

34. 21 When they had threatened them further, they let them go (finding no basis on which to punish them) on account of the people, because they were all glorifying God for what had happened; 22 for the man was more than forty years old on whom this miracle of healing had been performed.
- Acts 4:21-22

35. Leaders Cannot Punish Apostles
Could not deny sermon

36. Leaders Cannot Punish Apostles
Could not deny sermon
Could not deny miracle

37. Leaders Cannot Punish Apostles
Could not deny sermon
Could not deny miracle
Could not deny the Apostles their freedom

38. And when they had prayed, the place where they had gathered together was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak the word of God with boldness.
- Acts 4:31

39. Jesus does not need someone’s faith to act
Lessons
Jesus does not need someone’s faith to act

40. Keep the gospel simple Lessons
Jesus does not need someone’s faith to act
Keep the gospel simple

41. Proclaim first – then explain

42. Reading Assignment Acts 5:1-42